. . . except it doesn't seem to work. I've downloaded the new plugin and installed that; then, when that didn't work, deleted the plugin and reinstalled it; logged in and logged out; restarted my Mac; tried with Skype running and without Skype running - and Skype API will not appear as an option in the Add Account menu

I'm now halfway there. I deleted my old Skype account in Admium, recreated it thanks to the latest version of the plugin (Skype API is again an option). . . but it never connects. It doesn't seem to care whether Skype's running, either. Perhaps it's just me. Would be good to know if anyone else is having more luck.

My problem is that the new version of the plug-in is not workin when used with the older 1.1.4 Adium that I am still using. I don't like all the said-to-be improvements in Adium 1.2 so I haven't up-dated. Currently I am using the older version of Skype plug-in (working), but it still crashes. Why can't I use the new one with the old Adium?

Because the dependencies moved within the Adium.app. I did have a try making the plugin work for both 1.1 and 1.2 unsuccessfully, but I'll have another look to see if it can be done now that I've changed things around a little.

Is it possible to have (as before the last plugin revision) a "skype" group for the skype contacts? Creating a group on adium and adding skype contacts does not work, nor creating a group on skype (2.7) beta and seeing of adium skype plugins inports it.

The problem is with the Libpurple.framework in 1.1.4
You're best to upgrade to Adium 1.2, however I have found a workaround for 1.1.4 which is to edit Adium.app/Contents/PlugIns/Purple.AdiumPlugin/Contents/Frameworks/Libpurple.framework/Resources/Info.plist and change "CFBundleExecutable" to "Libpurple" (without the quotes), then rename the plugin to SkypePlugin.AdiumLibpurplePlugin. If that doesn't work, email me directly through the link above and I'll give you a few other things to try.

I did the workout you had described. It did not work though. I did not do the backup (silly me) and although I reversed the workout, Adium did not see any of my accounts. So what I did was I upgraded to 1.2 - all the data were back. I don't like some of the changes in 1.2 They're slowing me down. But will need to get used to. The newest Skype plug-in works dead on now. Good job! Thanks for help, anyway. Keep the good work! Regards.

I love the idea of this plugin and the implementation is really nice. I've run into a few bugs, but the developer has been very responsive. I hope all those who promised to pay the bounty are sending the money to Eion.

genba posted a reference to a problem which I am also experiencing. s/he referred to a Trac Adium ticket number, but I thought it might be helpful to pull the information into this list of comments.

The Sype API Plugin is producing odd behaviour with file tranfers - both transfers in and out.

Each time we get two file transfers, the second of which seems to function normally - though Adium actually reports that the transfer was cancelled by the receiver even though they didn't.

However, the first transfer item in the window just sits there saying that it's waiting to start.

If you try to quite Adium - which is the only way to get rid of it as the x stop icon doesn't functiion - Adium will report that a file transfer is in progress and ask for confirmation of the quit.

This is a shame as we can't actually tell which transfers are actually going through and if the one that just sits there will do so indefinitely and whether it is actually taking up bandwidth trying to transfer.

I have resorted to transfer by email again, as this plugin is too useful to want to disable it. If the transfer issue could be solved, the plugin would be perfect!

Ticket 9044 says that "That has been fixed for the next release [of Adium]"
The plugin does make some changes to the file transfers in Adium, but I'll play around with MSN and see how its affected and whether there's a workaround for the problem until the next version of Adium comes out.

Hi, your Skype add-on rocks now! It's really good. Though I have one practical thing that bugs me a lot - when I have a call from Skype, Skype's own po-pup appears, then it quickly desappears, and Adium's pop-up appears. This is very very frustrating because it's confusing. And Skype's own pop-up has more options (you can send call to voicemail), so why doubling the pop-up menu? Why not leave Skype's own or create a setting for us to choose? When I have lots of phone calls it may be really annoying. Please leave Skype's pop-up or at least set it as an option. Besides that bug, it rocks!

Oh dear - it seems that Adium 1.2.4b1 doesn't recognise the Skype plugin (Mac OS 10.4.11). The plugin is in the Downloads folder where it always was, but It works perfectly with Adium 1.2.3 (apart from the double file tranfer issue).

this is a minor bug, but the icon spacing is off in the menus. In the above image you can see it as "Skype API" isn't left aligned from the same spot as other protocol names. This bug is also present in the "Status" and "File" menus.

Hi! I have a problem when I launch Adium (1.2.5b1): the program freezes after launching Skype. I don't experience the problem if I launch Skype manually before launching Adium. I'm I the only one experiencing the issue?

Hi! I have a problem when I launch Adium (1.2.5b1): the program freezes after launching Skype. I don't experience the problem if I launch Skype manually before launching Adium. I'm I the only one experiencing the issue?

Yeah, unfortunatly there's a bug in the plugin for 1.2.4 and 1.2.5, the workaround for it at the moment is to start Skype before starting Adium.
My Mac has been in repairs so I havn't had a chance to fix it yet, but I'm working on it. :)

I think that I got around this by launching Skype first and then launching Adium. I was prompted by Skype to give Adium authorization and then I selected to 'always allow', or something like that. Hope that helps ;)

Well if you have an MSN and icq contact from the same person, adium can "group" them into a single item in the contact list. Adium manages this dependencies via adress book, which doesn't support skype, so my question is if anyone knows a way to merge, say an icq and a skype contact into a singel contact list item.

You can group any kind of contact in Adium by dragging the contact while holding down the command key and dropping it on top of another contact, Skype contacts included. Adium doesn't manage this using address book, it is part of the underlying libpurple buddylist.

The option for not showing SkypeOut contacts as online is unfortunatly not visible in Adium, you'll have to change it by manually editing the accounts.xml file in your ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/ directory, and change the line
1
to
0

With every update the Skype plugin becomes more stable and gets new convenient features. Nevertheless, since about two weeks when I start Adium with activated Skype-autologin, Adium launches two instances of Skype. Sometimes it launches one but creates a new dock icon for it instead of using my one. Has anyone else the same bug? (Adium X 1.2.5 and latest Skype plugin - 30 Apr)

I'd like to say that I really enjoy using this Xtra. It's really nice having all my contacts in one app, instead of multiple chat clients. Thanks for throwing this together :-).

I've noticed a problem with contact statuses. When a Skype user disconnects, it shows their status as "Offline with Voicemail". When they come back online, their status still says the same message. Is there a way to update a contacts status when they come back online?

Also, I had a couple of previous Skype chats that seem to display very weird topics. These chats were started in the Skype program itself, and later carried on in adium. They seem to show a topic that looks like $skype_username/$abc123. I haven't tested starting a topic in adium, but it definitely happens on existing chats.

I'm not entirely sure what's going on with the "Offline with Voicemail" status still being shown for online contacts. I'll have to try play around with this myself to try and replicate the bug, but in the code, if the buddy's status changes their status text is supposed to be refreshed. Odd.

The chat topics aren't actually the topics but the names of the chats. Since Skype chats are known by the funny #username/$number names, that's what is displayed in the adium chat window by default. In the latest version, the title is set on the chat window to be the same as what's in Skype, but Adium doesn't always show this change. I'm told that if you change to a different chat window and back again, that the chat title updates to something more human readable.

I still have the problem with Skype crashing and reopening repeatedly. Also, I tried making a group called "Skype" in my Adium contact list, but it never sticks between program restarts of Adium itself.

Hi again, I've got one question: why does Skype open automatically whenever I open Adium but not choose to connect to Skype using the plug-in? I think you really need to choose the "you have an option" way, instead of actualy forcing things. I don't like that Skype opens up when I don't want it too. I think that Skype should be opened only when you connect to Skype using plug-in, not immediately after you open Adium.

There is an option to not have Skype start automatically but unfortunatly there is no UI for changing it. To change it manually, you need to edit ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/libpurple/accounts.xml and add in a setting
"setting name='skype_autostart' type='bool' 0 /setting
in a similar format to the other settings (unfortunatly adiumxtras takes away any xml so i can't format this properly for you)

You say that Skype should only be opened when you connect to Skype.... this is the only time that the plugin can open Skype, its just that Adium is trying to connect to Skype as soon as it starts.

Thanks for the tip, it worked flawlessly. And thanks for the explanation that it was not plug-in's fault, but Adium's. Sorry I blamed your fantastic plug-in.

Anyway, there is one thing in the plug-in behaviour that I don't understand and I reckon it unnecessarily gets in one's way. Whenether receive get a call via Skype, the plug-in shows the 'answer the call' window. But Skype shows the 'answer or reject' bezel in the first place. The result is I have a call and I get 2 windows that let me answer it. Because Skype bezel is really nice and faster I use it to answer the call. But here I get next unpleasant surprise: in addition to unnecessary multiple choice, there is a bug - even if I take the call the plug-in window stays on, still asking me if I want to answer. I must admit this is very annoying, especially when I get many calls.
I think you should really get rid of that "answer the call" window. Not only does it keep confusing and gets in your way esp. when there are many calls, but it also one can really get cross when each time has to close the plug-in window because of the bug.

I think you should really concider getting rid of this absolutely unnecessary and annoying 'answer' window.

I only found this out myself a few days ago. Since Skype is supposed to be hidden, there's not supposed to be any way to answer the call, which is why the answer window in Adium appears. On other platforms Skype's answer window does not appear so it needs a replacement. I'll remove it from the Adium version for now, or perhaps make the answer window disappear if you answer with Skype.

Thank you for prompt reaction. If I may advise you I would rather see the plug-in window not appearing at all, because you still get the Skype bezel (which appears faster, looks a bit nicer and gives more options). The Skype bezel is shown even if Skype icons are hidden from the Dock and the MenuBar - seems reasonable enough to me, if looking at it from Skype functionality perspective.
Thanks in advance, looking forward to having it fixed. :-)

Thanks, that seems to have done the trick. No crashes since installing the June 17 version and the annoying thing about two Skype sessions opening when you start Adium seems to have disappeared.
Great job, I really like your plugin.

After upgrading to the latest version from your website (today) the groups ended up not working.
When I rearrange Skype contacts in Adium to groups other than the “Skype” group they stay there until I relaunch the application. New groups are created in Skype and contacts are rearranged there, but they don't stay arranged in Adium. When Adium is relauched contacts are back in the default “Skype” group. So, basically, syncing back to Adium from Skype doesn't work on launch.
Already tried removing and adding back the account in Adium.
Skype is 2.7.0.330, Adium is 1.2.7.
How can I resolve this, hmm?

to edit info.plist: contextmenu -> show package contents
after editing, move your edited skypeplugin to another place (e.g. desktop). recheck that there is no skypeplugin in plugin folder(s). doulbe click it to install the edited moved file. then restart adium.
hope it works.

Hi itlinux, I just used yours, but nothing happens, in add accounts appears the SKYPE API, then click to add and nothing happens, just do not let create the account, maybe other thing to do???
Thanks
Fausto

Hello, is there a workaround to use this plugin with the new Adium 1.3? Unfortunately the plugin won't load and is disabled. Of course I hope the author will publish an update soon, but meanwhile maybe there is a way to make the two work.

Or is there a fundamental technical difference in Adium 1.3 which needs a plugin rewrite?

There is a way, but it will take you a few minutes:
You can install Adium 1.2 (http://www.brothersoft.com/adium-x...-60713.html) and then install the Skype xtra to create your accounts. Then update Adium, download and modify the Skype plugin and you can use it without using guest accounts.

atm somehow NONE of the above tips are helping me
shouldn't the developers have come up with a working plugin by now???
i mean, wtf, it's been a month with a new adium x version and there's still no working skype plugin for that

Hi! Thank you very much for the Skype Plugin! But in this version there semms to be one little bug. Normally you see the groups Skype and Skype Out and you could move the contacts into other groups. This time, if the contact uses no other protocol, after a restart of Adium the two groups are always back with the contacts in it. The only way to move my skype contacts is to merge them with exisiting other protocols. Hope you can fix this in a following version. But please keep up the good work!

Great plugin :)
But is there any chance that you will add a way so that Skype quits with Adium, or even a "Quit Skype" option? It would help to make it feel more Adium oriented and the user could also hide Skype from their dock if this was done.

Hi Eion! Thanks a million for this plugin. I've installed it yesterday and I've fallen in love immediately. Having all my contacts and chats in one application really helps on my messy desktop. While I don't have heldausberlin's problem I've encountered the same the problem as Vanilla-Gorilla. And, yeah, spartin92's suggestion is great: Having Skype quit automatically when one quits Adium would be awesome. But don't get me wrong here: I'm a happy user already!
Cheers, max

Hi,
Thanks for the skype plugin ... I have been using it for some time now and it worked perfectly for me ... +H on skype and thats it ... but I have updated Adium to1.3.2 version and it has dissabled the plugin :( ... any ideas as to what I could do?
Thanks a lot once agiain.

I can create new chats and invite users. But if friends (using original skype) do so and invite me, I recieve their messages but don't see them in a multi-user chat.

Example: I'm chatting in a private chat with friend 1 and in another private chat with friend 2. Those chats are in separate Adium tabs. Then friend 1 creates a multi-user chat and invites me and friend 2. Now all of us are in this multi-user chat, but I don't see that in Adium. I can only send separate messages to friend 1 and friend 2 in the private chats. If friend 1 posts a message in the multi-user chat, I recieve that message in our private chat window. So I can't see if a message from one of them is adressed to me only or to both of us.

@Eion: do you think, you can fix that? That would be great, because multi-user chats are very useful. Once you have invited a group of people into a chatroom, you can recall them anytime.

Hey, nice to see there is a new update! But I still have the same problem. If I try to move the Contacts from the Skype Group into my Friends group, after a restart the Skype Group is back on my contact list. It still only works to merge contacts. Hope you can fix this behaviour in the future version. Keep up the good work!

Hi! I like VERY MUCH this plugin but I have a problem: I'm using the 25 Sep version of the plugin and when in Adium I change my status or my mood theese changes are automatically made also inside the Skype windows. With the next two versions of the plugin this doesn't work anymore.
I think these feature is AMAZING... is there a reason why it doesn't work anymore? Or is it just a bug?
Thanks for your help and again THANKS for this GREAT plugin!!! :D

I use the current version (4Jan) and the same bug occurs here: if I change the status in Adium, the plugin doesn't change Skype's status or status message. What's more, I can't remember that there has ever been another status that "Online" or "Away" which could be set for the Skype plugin, although Skype offers more status options like "Not available", "Invisible" or "Occupied". Will the bug be fixed (if it's a bug), and will there come a version with more status options?

Thanks for the update, BigBrownChunx, but it does not work on my mac. Update is installed, Adium and Skype are both restarted. When I change the status using Adium, it does not affect the status icon at the top of the Skype window. Also, when I tell Adium to disconnect Skype, it seems to only disconnect the API connection, but my Skype accout keeps online. When Skype is offline, connecting with Adium works, but Adium connects Skype always as "Online".

I'm using german as my system's language, does that affect the behavior of the Skype plugin?

What's more, "occupied" does not appear in the dropdown list of the plugin's status window in Adium. Is that intended?

It would be great if I could map my Adium status messages to appropriate Skype ones. (That is, my "I'm out" Adium status is best represented by "Away," but my "On the phone" Aduim status would be better represented by "Not Available."

Hard to work out the best method for that, I imagine! (Maybe a drop-down in the "Edit" dialogue for statuses in the Status prefs?) But it would be much appreciated.

I'm using a second partition to store my programs. So Adium and Skype are not on the system's partition. I know, this plugin will automatically start and hide Skype after you start Adium. But it seems like it does not do that if the programs aren't on the system partition. :)

I also really like the plugin BUT with the new 21Jan version the Status Problem is still alive.... as redaemn said, in the september version it was no problem to change the skype status from adium.

And another point... is it possible that the Plugin check the Skype Status of my buddies more frequent, because when they change their status in Skype it takes loooong time to appear in my adium window.

it still is one of the best plug-ins for Adium and for the first time ever I have major issues:
I am on OS X 10.5.6, Adium 1.3.2 and Skype 2.8.0.324 (BETA), everything was working fine until 2 days ago,
at first Adium didn't show Skype chat messages anymore and now it goes haywire, switching back and forth between
showing the Skype contacts and not showing them, any ideas?
I can send you my system logs since they have some reoccuring lines like:
"Jan 28 14:25:04 Niemalsland [0x0-0x4a64a6].com.adiumX.adiumX[21026]: ** (process:21026): CRITICAL **: purple_status_is_online: assertion `status != NULL' failed" and "Jan 28 14:19:06 Niemalsland [0x0-0x496496].com.adiumX.adiumX[20711]: Message received ERROR 106 Invalid PROP" and
"Jan 28 14:19:06 Niemalsland [0x0-0x496496].com.adiumX.adiumX[20711]: Message received ERROR 105 invalid chat name"

Unfortunatly, the problem is with the Skype 2.8 Beta. It's been reported in the Skype Jira bugtracking system and we'll just have to wait for them to fix things at their end. I'd recommend you go back to 2.7 for now

I installed skype (2.7) and have been using it well. I installed Adium 3 weeks ago, starting using the AIM, MSN, Facebook, it works great. THen I added Skype plugin to test and used it for few times. Due to redundancy and duplication of chats both in skype and adium, I decided to remove Skype Plugin from Adium. So I uninstalled it by going to Xtrasmanager->Plugins-> deleted the Skype Plugin. THis resulted into deletion of skype plugin from Adium, but now it shows all my contacts on skype to be offline. I then removed the adium Account->Manage API Client and removed from their as well but it still shows me all my contacts on skype to be offline. I am using Max OS 10.5.6. I uninstalled Adium and Skype and reinstalled it and started skype, all my contacts still offline. I couldn't figure out anything, and then I reinstalled the Skypeplugin on Adium, re-ran Adium, authorized Skype to allow Adium connections and there u go, my contacts are online now. THis is temporary but I want to remove skype plugin and resolve the above problem. Please help.

Couple of things you can do. First, if you want to keep using the plugin, you can hide Skype with command+H, then you won't be bothered by duplicate messages. Otherwise, if you're desperate to get rid of the plugin, then it sounds like you just need to change your status in Skype to "online" as, by default, the plugin sets your status to "offline" when disconnecting.

ok, I still have a problem, I just test to hide skype command+H, my friend send me a message, I heard the sound in skype that I receive a message, but the message don't appear in adium, to see it i have to clic on skype and open my friend conversation...

Hi! I updated to 8 Apr version with Adium 1.3.3 and Skype 2.8.0.438. Now changing Skype's status and mood from Adium works!!! :D
I just noticed that when I try to set a busy state in Adium skype goes off-line and Adium crashes... this could be a bug :P
Anyway... this plugin ROCKS!!! :D Thank you BigBrownChunx!!!

The plugin sometimes sends messages to the wrong people, although I haven't been able to figure out why. The messages in the adium log are then to person x and in skype log to person y. Maybe it has something to do with the number of open message sessions in the backgrounded skype.

This one is actually not that easy to repeatedly test here - because it happens only sometimes. I am still guessing though that is has to do with the number of message windows you have open in the backgrounded skype. At least the two times I had the error, I opened skype to check the logs there to see where it went - and I had 4 or 5 open message windows with old messages I had sent before. I closed them all, restarted skype and adium and it worked again. I can't really reproduce that easily, because I only have 4 or 5 skype contacts in total that I chat with - and that is pretty sporadic ;)

After the Adium 1.4b1 Update and the new multiple contacts feature I had my contacts all over the place. A combined contact in the place where it belongs as well as in the skype group.
To get rid of that, and have only one contact in the list again, I moved the contact from the skype list to the group where it belongs, which has the plugin telling skype to move the contact into a non-existing group. This causes the contact to vanish completely from skype as well as Adium.
Is there any way to get around that, except moving all my contacts which are combined w/ skype into the 'skype' group?

Maybe an option in the plugin to turn off telling skype of contact moves, would help.

Since the last Update from yesterday, all my contacts vanished. Just one remained.. I tested the latest Adium beta as well as the stable release - but that didn't solve it. The Skype-group ist not visible, but I can chat with my buddies once they open a message to me..

On a mac running the new beta version of skype (build 2.8.0.659) and Adium v1.3.5 and tried out this addon. Unfortunately the buddy list doesn't update with the skype individuals, and I'm wondering if its because I'm using a beta version of skype.

i am using it on macosx too, using the last stable version of skype, and I'got the same problem... only appear one contact of the skype list in addium... I think that the problem is the plugin update...

Hello,
I have to say thank you very much for this plug-in, it makes my messaging much easier and better to hold the overview.

I started my Adium after the update and a skype error occured: it told me, that skype was not running. Before the update of the plug-in, Adium started skype at the same time automatically, that was (in my opinion) much better, because I had to click only the adium button to connect to all my messengers. Is it possible to make it working that way on my computer again?

Only ~/Library/Application Support/Skype is the issue (if I had to guess, I'd say it was shared.xml). Skype stores information about which applications are allowed to use the Skype API, and perhaps if something changes sometimes this might not be properly updated. Adium can't talk to Skype, therefore it returns the error.

This problem tends to occur when Skype and Adium are started at the same time, and the Adium plug-in tries to launch a new instance of Skype. I can confirm that the ~/Library/Application Support/Skype/shared* files are not only the issue. I had to delete the directory as well for Skype to prompt me again about authorization for Adium.

The latest plugin crashes every time. Anyone else who has this?
Yesterday afternoon it all worked, but all of a sudden, it crashed and wont start since.
Log says it has something to do with the buddylist.

The Version from 23Jul doesn't crash anymore, but no contact from skype shows up in adium. The preferences dialog shows that the skype account could not be connected even skype works perfekt and is connected. I think the support for the release version of skype 2.8 is not done with the lastest update. I hope this will be fixed soon. i don't like the skype user interface.

Great Skype interface! I only have one problem though. When I log on to skype, my contacts are not grouped in the adium buddy list. Instead they all show up in the offline group, even when they are online. I can drag the skype contacts into any group I want but once I close Adium and restart it the contacts will not stay in that group and are reset to being in the offline group every time. Is this just a part of the plugin or is there a way for me to fix this?

I'm having the same issue with no group being created for my skype contacts. It's not the hugest thing, but seems like something that would be a quick fix, and it is somewhat strange to see the skype ones hanging off the end of my contact list without being in any group at all. I didn't know that was possible!

Hi everybody, I installed Adium on a fresh install of Snow Leopard and when installed this xtra for Skype (Skype working) Adium tried and tried to connect but it couldn´t, however skype was running without problems.
I reinstalled snow leopard MAC OS X again and tried to find this xtra but it is not present in the search results.
Today I tried to download the xtra and the link is not working.
Is there any problem with this xtra and Snow Leopard?

Question After i started using the skype add-on i am no longer able to use the original skype, (the contacts all seem to be off line) I would like to still be able to use my skype application from time to time, is there a way to still be able to do that? I even tried to Delete Adium but after signing on to skype my contacts were still all signed off line. thanks for any help !!

Hey! I'm running Snow Leopard (10.6.1), and the Nightly Build of Adium (for IRC access), and every time I open Adium with the Skype plugin, I recieve the following error : http://pastebin.com/f2085cbe1

I've tried rolling back to an earlier version of nightlies, and that still does not solve my problem- any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Connecting: Authorizating (0%), after a little while it says "Error: Could not connect to the Skype Process. Skype not running?" Reconnecting in 3s... never gets connected.

Skype is running, this behavior started when I say yes to the upgrade for skype (now I've 2.8.0.722), when the problem came out, I upgraded to Adium 1.3.6 to see if the problem gets resolved, but the problem persists.

Type /leave into the chat and you should be leaving it. There's been some debate as to whether closing the chat tab should leave the conversation (like with other Adium/Pidgin chats) or whether it should keep you in the conversation (like in Skype)

I've installed the SkypePlugin and it looks like it doesn't work. It shows up in the PlugIn-Manager but nowhere else. No skype contacts, no error messages, regardless if skype is running or not. Should there be any options/preferences for this plugin? If so, where?
I tried to find information about how it should look like when the plugin is running, but i couldn't find any. As a suggestion for the readme-file or your website: It would had saved me quite some time, if it were mentioned somewhere, what is expected to happen after the installation of the plugin (i.e. what changes in the interface/contact list)
I renamed my Adium2.0 directory to start over with a clean profile, but it didn't change anything with regard to the plugin. I deleted the plugin from the profile repeatedly and reinstalled.

Adium-Version is 1.3.8
Skype 2.8.0.722
Snow Leopard 10.6.2
Plugin-Version should be from 15th of November
I'm running out of ideas here, can't even determine, if this is an Adium- or a plugin error (or a user error...).

Don't know if this is what you meant, but when I add my ICQ account to a new (clean) adium profile I don't see something skype-related happenening.
I assume I should either see my skype-contacts in Adiums contact list or get an error message, that skype should be started?

OK, now I get what you mean. SkypeAPI shows up under protocols, adding a skype account brings all my skype contacts into my Adium contact list. Actually looks like it works like a charm. Shame on me. ;)

Many thanks for your help.

Allthough all this looks quite simple when you know it, I still would suggest to add the info how to start to the readme. Maybe there are more like me aóut there, getting this wrong.

I've just been so happy as I saw
15 Nov:
* Finally fixed groups
But even if I completely reinstall the Plugin, the "Skype" group in my contact list is deleted as soon as I restart Adium.
Has anyone got an idea how to fix that?

Status seems to work for online/away and custom messages, but breaks for manually set 'invisible' and with automatic 'away' after idle (Skype still shows me available, but XMPP status is correct.)

Every 2-3 times I start Adium, it fails to start Skype unless I choose 'always allow this application to use Skype' and then forgets that soon after.

If someone sends me a file via Skype file transfer, a window pops up with every Skype file xfer I've ever done and no indication of what is new.

There are some conditions (can't quite nail it down yet) where I get both a Skype and an Adium popup and no matter how many times I minimize the Skype chat, oth pop back up when the next message comes in. + H seems to stop this but it can get very distracting.

Unfortunately I can't get the group chats to work properly. They don't open by themselves and they don't show the conversations I missed like they do on Skype. The group chat essentially behaves like any other 1on1 Chat, opening as soon as someone sends me a message, but not before. Am I doing something wrong or is this feature just not implemented yet?

For anyone who's still upset about having to have the program open, I've come up with a fairly decent interim solution to make it *appear* as though Skype chat (text only, obviously) works seamlessly and exclusively within Adium.

2. Go into Skype's preferences and turn off all of your in-app sound notifications (otherwise they'll double up with your Adium-based ones)

3. Use Dock Dodger on Skype and restart the program. Without the Dock icon the easiest way to access it is through Spotlight, Quicksilver, or another launcher program, though of course you can do it the old-fashioned way by going to Applications also.

4. Install this Adium/Skype plugin featured on this page. Restart Adium.

5. Voila! When you first launch Skype, you can just use Cmd + H to hide the chat and buddy list windows, and from there on out you will ONLY see/hear them in Adium, and only see the Adium buddy list.

For anyone who's still upset about having to have the program open, I've come up with a fairly decent interim solution to make it *appear* as though Skype chat (text only, obviously) works seamlessly and exclusively within Adium.

2. Go into Skype's preferences and turn off all of your in-app sound notifications (otherwise they'll double up with your Adium-based ones)

3. Use Dock Dodger on Skype and restart the program. Without the Dock icon the easiest way to access it is through Spotlight, Quicksilver, or another launcher program, though of course you can do it the old-fashioned way by going to Applications also.

4. Install this Adium/Skype plugin featured on this page. Restart Adium.

5. Voila! When you first launch Skype, you can just use Cmd + H to hide the chat and buddy list windows, and from there on out you will ONLY see/hear them in Adium, and only see the Adium buddy list.

Quick question i am running the latest version of everything on snow leopard. when i receive a message for skype, i get two chat windows, one in adium, AND one in skype, ow can i keep the skype window from popping up.

I cannot see my Skype group at all, and when I try to delete them from this group Adium crashes. I am so disappointed, I dont know what to do. Everytime I hear "software just works" I want to smack someone over the head can someone please help me??

I cannot see my Skype group at all, and when I try to delete them from this group Adium crashes. I am so disappointed, I dont know what to do. Everytime I hear "software just works" I want to smack someone over the head can someone please help me??

Echo to caliguy, albeit not with their apparent degree of frustration. When using the Skype plugin, my Skype contacts are listed as members of that group: ROOTJKSHFOEIZNGIOEOP

That particular group does not show in my Contact List, the contacts appear to just be "floating" within the list. It also is impossible to move them to another group, either by editing the contacts' information or by drag-and-dropping them into a group - Adium either doesn't commit the change or crashes. Also echo the behavior of crashing when trying to delete from this group.

Also reporting a significant performance hit to Adium when using this plugin version. The program becomes unresponsive for seconds at a time, without an overt cause. Presuming these are update intervals for the Skype API?

Hi, I have the same problem with my Skype contacts, they used to work fine with the Skype plugin, however now they automatically belong to the group "rootjkshfoeizngioeop" instead of the Skype group as before, it seems as if the skype group has been deleted and the default "rootjkshfoeizngioeop" is working instead.

I keep having problems with your Skype plugin. It worked fine for quite a while but today it only seems to crash Adium or make it run so slowly that its nearly unusable. It just gives me this error -> Error: Could not connect to Skype process. Skype not running?
I can definitely confirm that Skype is running when its giving me this error so I don't know what is going on.
I have tried deleting and reinstalling the plugin a few times, as well as my Skype application, but the problem persists. Any idea what might have gone wrong or what I should try to do to find out? I'm kind of at a loss at this point...

So when skype was starting up after adium told it to, The access window came up and usually it auto accepts after 3 seconds or so, but this time I pressed enter before it disappeared. I don't know what my enter button did, but now Adium hangs every time I try to connect to skype. Skype opens and everything, but the contacts don't show up and Adium is very slow until I can get up to Cancel Skype login.

Is there a way I can reset the permission so that the window comes up again?

Every time I start a Skype chat through Adium both the Adium and Skype chat windows pop-up. I cannot find any options to disable the Skype chat window. It is really annoying and very frustrating. Excellent plug-in except for this feature.

This plugin works great, but I was wondering about the ability to close skype when I close adium, so I don't have to close both applications. I tried adding an event in adium, telling it to run an applescript when I disconnect. The applescript I wrote is just "tell application "skype"; quit application; end tell" and the applescript works when I just execute the script but for some reason adium won't run the script when I quit the application by using cmd+q? Possibly because adium doesn't register a "quit" as a "disconnect"? Help anyone?

The plugin can start skype on its own, which is great. A simple edit to the skype Info.plist turns the app into an agent (no dock icon, no taskbar icon, no menubar) so you don't really have to 'know' that it's even running.

I have got a problem. I use Adium with this Skype plugin and everytime I start Adium, it goes online in icq , it starts skype, BUT when skype is online adium crashes. Skype is still running, but not Adium and if I start Adium again, it goes again online in icq, but just for a second and crashes again.
If I start Adium without Skype or quit Skype while dealing in, everything is fine!

My Skype API Client permissions is "allow access" to Adium.

I have tried deleting and reinstalling the plugin, adium and skype a few times. It's the newes version Adium:1.3.10 Skype:2.8.0.851
But nothing worked.

I am having the same problem as it seems many others are, Adium crashes when it tries to connect to Skype. I've been using Adium with the Skype extension for a couple years now with no problems, this problem started happening yesterday. Help?

Well, I finally dug the plugin out of my Users/Gyffes/Library/Application Support/Adium/Plugins folder and deleted the plugin; Adium now starts up w/out crashing. I tried to remove the skype line from the plist but it wouldn't edit so I tried this and it proved sufficient.

Like others have reported, this latest version crashes Adium on startup. If Skype is already running it crashes very quickly but if Skype is not running it starts Skype OK, hides the Skype contact list, managed the "Another application ..." security dialogue OK and then crashes Adium. Putting the old plug-in back from the Trash makes everything go good again.

Same deal. When Adium is reopened after plug-in install, it opens skype which automatically logs in, but then adium reports a fatal error and exits. Had to manually trash plug-in from its directory under /library/...

Sort of solved the problem. Downloaded the latest beta of Adium (v.1.4b18) and the plugin works. I've only had it up for 5 minutes, but it doesn't fail upon start-up as before. Everything seems to be going smoothly.

After Update to Adium 1.4 b19 Skype Plug-in starts Skype on start-up,
skype is also started without any problem and runs normally
but Adium seems to hang and gives the following message:
"Could not connect to Skype process.
Skype not running?"
I de-activate Plug-in since then..
Problem existed before with Version b18.
Thanks in advice!

When I use the Skype client to look at a contact's profile I get a birthday shown. When I do the same in Adium the birthday shown (from the GetInfo) is todays date and not the value from the Skype contact, nor the birthday from the Address Book card. Also the date format is the US format mm/dd/yy rather than the formats being sed by the system.

(still using the previous release of the Skype plug-in as the current one crashes my Adium and I don't really want to start going over to beta releases.

New artifact since the upgrade to Adium 1.4b19 and 20100826 build: Duplicate contacts appearing in my assigned Adium groups and also the Skype group. Choosing 'get info' for one of these contacts shows it belonging to both groups, but when I select and delete the Skype group, nothing changes.

Seems like the Skype group is somehow auto-creating itself, so as long as I collapse it I get a normal view with the other groups. There is a bug with deleting groups - Adium crashes if I try to remove a group from a Skype contact. Once it restarts, things seem to straighten out.

This duplicating bug is still present in the Adium 1.4 final release (Skype plugin version 26Aug). Contacts are part of both their original group and a new group, "ROOTJKSHFOEIZNGIOEOP". Users in this ROOT... group appear as unsorted contacts. If I try to remove them from the ROOT... group, it removes their original group instead.

Since upgrading to Adium 1.4 this plug-in no longer changes the status (online/busy/etc.) of Skype when coming out of sleep (i.e. opening the screen of my MacBook. Works OK is I them manually change the status of Adium (Skype status changes to the new status OK). Its just when coming out of sleep it does not happen. Adium updates the status fine (i.e. automatically puts status back to online - you often notice the icon starting "offline" then after a few moments changing to available). Worked fine with the 1.3 Adium release. This is both with the previous plug-in release and the current (I upgraded to 26Aug release in case it was an issue with the previous release).

Also, having similar issues with groups - but my "View Groups" in Adium looks a complete mess - for all contacts not just those in Skype. It looks like something to do with where you have contacts grouped (as done automatically based on the Address book). I've not looked in details but is seems that all IM addresses for each contact are shown in every group; so a contact with an AIM and an Jabber address (grouped) would then have both addresses displayed in both groups (though this may be a display issue as the Get Info on each address shown in both groups has only the correct groups listed (i.e. the duplication is in the display list NOT the grouping). But I don;t tend to "Show Groups" so I've not investigated in any detail.

I'm now starting to get crashes on coming out of sleep (and it looks like the crash is in the Skype plug-in). Never had any problems with the previous release of Adium and Skye plug-in so it is something to do with the upgrade. If the crash report is useful let me know and where to send it (I guess you would not want the entire file posted here !).

To clarify the problem with the status not being re-set correctly - I used bad (well wrong) terminology.

When my MacBook is closed (goes into suspend mode) and then opened again, Adium sets all services to "available" except Skype which stays "away". If I leave the MacBook alone for a bit, long enough so Adium automatically sets its status to idle/away then when I start using the computer again, Adium/Skype plug-in set all services back to online (including Skype). So the failure to set the Skype status only happens when opening the MacBook (from suspend).

I think I got sleep/suspend wrong. Very sorry and I hope you have not wasted time chasing the wrong thing.

(For anybody else's info: Crash sent and you have received and are investigating)

When I manually set the status using Adium, Skype updates its status correctly. When idle/away through inactivity, on activity Adium goes back online OK but Skype does not change and stays "Away". I have to manually change the status (in Adium) to get Skype to go back "Available".

Either I have been reading things wrong or the behaviour is not consistent. anyway, I've tried several times and this should be the final update on this (sorry for messing you around).

On opening MacBook (resume from suspend), Adium puts all accounts back online OK except Skype which seems to stay/go to an away state (I am to slow entering my password to see what state it is in immediately on opening laptop - so MSN, AIM, etc all online OK but Skype "away".

Skype then stays in "away" status whilst computer in use. If computer then left for e.g. 15 mins so it goes into sleep state, on return from sleep, enter security password and everything including skype put back online properly (i.e. Skype is switched from its incorrect "away" state to online.

So the fault is in resume from suspend whilst resume from sleep works OK. Looks (from a users perspective) as though Skype plug-in works OK as works fine on resume from sleep.

Any progress as it is a real pain and I keep forgetting to change Skype status on opening MacBook (so I can be shows as away for hours when I am actually online and people cannot/do not contact me and it is a big impact).

Just upgraded to Skype beta 5.0.0.6378. I dont' get a crash. Skype come up along with Adium. If I start a conversation from inside Adium for Skype contact, the contact will see my message. However, when the contact replies, I do *not* see the reply, and have to switch over to Skype to continue the conversation.

Looks like the groups bug still exists. I have Adium 1.4 with Skype 2.8.0.851 and the 8Nov (11/07/2010) Skype Plugin and the Skype group recreates itself every time I close out both Adium and Skype and restart Adium. When Adium restarts, it recreates the Skype group.

I have the following set for Skype account options:

Auto-start Skype if not running
Make Skype online/offline when going online/offline

Oh my god, didn't await such an easy solution!
Thank you very much. Didn't even thought about controlling this option - thought this would be regulated through the plug-in or as in old times through a question of Skype at its starting-up.
Thank you!

Everything works great *except* for the Skype group not being created (it eventually got, after restarting Skype and Adium for the third time, but now the contacts are on the "rootjkshfoeizngioeop" group - and the group doesn't even show up - the contacts are only listed on the end of the contact list).

Thanks for the great plugin, loving it! Do you have any experiences with a bug on skypes end? I'm using skype 5 beta on Mac. When I check API settings, it says Adium is allowed to use it, without requiring asking again. Though each start, skype still wants to know of adium may have access. Any idea on why that might be?

That should be fixed in the latest Skype, but it happens because Skype hasn't loaded the user settings to see what programs are allowed, until Skype's logged in, but the plugin tries to connect to Skype before it's logged in. You can always try starting Skype before starting Adium to see if that fixes it, or try turn on the 'enable assistive devices' setting in the accessibility settings in your system settings.

Idea: To get round the "bug" in Skype, how about an additional plug-in option to delay the plug-in connection to Skype after starting it by either a preset number of seconds or allow user to set the delay in the plug-in options. This delay after starting Skype would allow it to start, connect and auto-login and thus load the user settings. I know that when Skype starts on my Mac it takes ages to start and log-in and takes loads of CPU time so I would need to set any such delay to be long but others might be able to get away with being quicker.

Just a thought as to how the plug-in could get round the Skype "funny"

Guess I should have checked first. It appears to (mostly) work, though I seem to have lost all my groups other than Skype after starting up Adium. Contacts are all there, assigned to Skype group, but the other groups are completely gone - not just unassigned.

When I start Adium, it now opens with a bunch of tabbed chat windows labeled like #myskypehandle/$+1234567890;234edf (my skyp handle, a ten digit phone number I called on Skype last time Adium was open, and a few random digits.) One tab for each call I made yesterday.

One more issue with the 5.0 Beta: I got a Skype authorization request which popped up the expected Adium window, but both options were grayed out. When I opened up Skype, I was able to authorize the request. Did they make changes to the API again?

I seem to be facing the same problem that many others are. Skype contacts seem to be placed in the root folder of my Adium contact list each time Adium restarts. If I create a group (called "Skype", for example) and place all the Skype contacts within it, restarting Adium moves the contacts back to root and I have to move them back to the group each time. This is pretty frustrating, as I like sorting my contacts into groups based on the service they use (MSN, AIM, GTalk, Skype, etc).

I am using the latest version of Adium (1.4.1, on Snow Leopard) and the 08Nov2010 version of your Skype plugin from this page. Is there any more information you need from me? And do you have a fix for this issue? A response would be appreciated, thanks.

I'm using Adium 1.4.1 on Snow Leopard and the 08Nov2010 version of Skype plugin too. What I do as a workaround for the ROOT group bug (ROOTJKSHFOEIZNGIOEOP) is that I start Adium normally and let all my accounts connect, then I just disconnect from the Skype service (File > Disconnect) and the reconnect (File > Connect) and all my contacts, including Skype ones, are placed correctly in their respective groups. Seems to be some race condition of sorts? I don't know, but that is what I do every time I connect, it is tedious but at least it is better than to have all contacts out of order.

Help:
since I installed skype 5.0:
- Adium shows my skype contacts as one group called 'skype'. It does not show the skype groups. If I create a new group and add skype contacts, the group disappears on Adium when I restart, but remains on skype.
- Skype 'hangs' on start-up '(auto-start' ticked, 'make skype online' also ticked, 'connect when adium opens' also ticked)

OS X 10.5.08
Admium 1.4.1 (16/11/2010)
Skype 5.0.0.7994

FB, IM, Yahoo, G'talk, Jabber, twitter, twitter timelines .. are all working and showing contact groups and if such groups contain combined skype contacts then the skype contact remains associated with that group. But if I disable e.g. FB, then the skype contact disappears from that group on restart.

No, I hadn't. Tried it. No changed. The I removed EVERYTHING (incl. Adium) .. cleaned out cache and preferences. Reinstalled Adium and Skype API, only. Still the same (at first there was no group and all the Skype contacts showed as a member of ROOTIJKSHFOINZGIOEOP). On second restart, only the 'Skype' group showed up again, but none of the other skype groups. Create two new groups in Adium and added contacts. The groups and its contacts showed-up immediately on skype, but on restart of Adium they had disappeared. Then I removed the skype group and that worked also: All my skype contacts were deleted! Also on the skype server!!! NB: Got them back: 1. set skype offline, quit skype 3. copied back the database from the Trash copy of the Pref data 4. restarted skype offline and renamed all 75 of them and then put skype online which synced the new names back to the server;)

Back to your Skype API for Adium: Adium transfers all information/action correctly to skype. However, it seems to me as if it only picks-up the skype root listing of the contacts (i.e. the contact group called 'Skype'), but none of the actual contact groups (even if that group was originally created in Adium, on restart of Adium/Skype they only show on Skype.

I have the same issue described by "roballen". Received chat messages do not appear in Adium, while I can send without a problem. Application restarts don't help. Any solutions? I see also in a previous thread that there is a known issue with Skype 5 beta where Adium is not able to receive messages, but is that still present in the final release?

I'm having the same problem as the person above me. I can send messages from Skype, and they're received just fine, but when someone tries to send ME a message, I don't get it. I thought I had the latest plugin version, but I'm not sure. Can you help me?

Hi, using latest version of Skype (5.1 but also 2.8) and latest version of Adium, your Skype plugin works just fine.
I have a feature wish: would it be possible to show and access the Skype chat history from within the Adium chat window and/or the Adium chat history window? I don't need it to be saved twice, it would be enough if I could browse it from within Adium.
Also, is the chat text which is typed within Adium always saved in Skype's own chat history (it seems so) or are there exceptions?

Using Skype 2.8 and the latest version of Adium. Able to use Skype just fine, save for the fact that my Skype contacts do not all show up in my Adium contact list. I can add contacts, and it will keep them for what seems to be one cycle of signing on/off, but will not show up again. I'd like to have ALL of my Skype contacts consistently show up on my Adium contact list. Help?

I fixed this by deleting the entire Skype group, then re-launching. Was definitely trigger-shy on removing the entire group on Adium (not Skype!), but did it anyway. So apparently my issue was something about duplicates canceling maybe? When I re-launched, it loaded Skype contacts under a Skype group - no problem! YAY.

I have some problems with contact grouping.
My Skype contacts appear at the end of the list of contacts.
Also I have the problem with grouped contacts: also the grouped contacts that contains a Skype contact are moved at the end of the list even if the whole contact belongs to another group.

Before I used Skype version 2.7 and the older version of the plugin and I have a similar problem, but was easily resolved simply disconnecting and reconnecting the Skype account from Adium just after I started Adium. But now I can't solve the situation in the same way.

There is any possible solution?
This is due to the plug-in or to Adium?

Update to the latest version of Skype and the latest version of Adium (released today I believe). I had the same problem until I upgraded a few minutes ago. These kinds of things happen when you're on the bleeding edge.

I'm really sorry for what happened to your city. Hope you and your family are well.

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But on my Mac it can't even connect to skype with while using Adium 1.4.3b2. Plugin authorize and trying to silence skype and after a while it says skype isn't running and trying to reconnect so many many times)))))

It seems that the skype plugin is blocking lion sleep mode. When I run a 'pmset -g assertions' in a terminal I get adium as the culprit of preventing lion to go into autosleep after a certain amount of time. when I disconnect from my skype account the autosleep works as intented. I can also run skype as standalone (without this plugin bridge) and lion autosleep works aswell. I hope that you can fix this issue

This plugin has been freezing adium for me ever since I switched to OSX Lion. I've had to disable it. I confirmed I have the latest updates for Skype, OSX and Adium to no avail. I've also tried with skype 2.8 and no difference in results. Adium becomes unuseable completely freezing and not recieving inputs.

This will happen if you haven't upgraded the plugin. Try re-downloading the plugin from here. If that still doesn't work, make sure you've completely removed the old plugin from ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Plugins before downloading a fresh copy and installing.

I'm having a crash on Adium 1.5b2 if I install or have the plugin installed already when Adium starts. I tried reinstalling with no success. I created a text file of the crash report and put it on a dropbox here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45948959/Cras...20Adium.txt

For me it's really useful. First I was annoyed that you need skype running in the back, but if someone wants a video or audio-chat with you you can easily switch to skype. But woulg be great if you could accept file-transfers directly from adium.

I'm having an error on Adium 1.5b4 (OSX 10.6.8) and Skype 5.4b. Upon startup, Adium quits immediately. After moving the plugin to the disabled folder, it works immediately.
I posted my crash log here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=RgtZDdRi

Just found a workaround...
Download the version fixed (only for 64bit) that you can found here: http://trac.adium.im/ticket/15590
Open the content od the package, open the file Info.plist and change versione of the bundle from 1.0 to something else, for example 1.1.
Install the package, and it should work.

Plugin Version 1.1 on Adium 1.5rc3 which is supposed to "Disabled groups, since all buddies were being added without a group" still shows all skype buddies three times - first in their respective group (together with all other Adium buddies) and secondly even twice in a group "Buddys" which cannot be hidden nor disabled...

They're using SkypeKit, which needs the official SkypeKit client running. Unfortunately the license for SkypeKit specifically forbids it from being used in any open source software, so it can't be used in Adium (or Pidgin)

Is there any reason why only three of my contacts are showing with this plugin? I have about 50 contacts on Skype, and yet only three show up with this plugin. Does anybody have any idea what this is all about?

Groups are back! Adium 1.5 + 9feb2012 plugin and suddenly everyone is back in their group (oh, wait, groups...) Deleted both the Skype and Buddies groups and everything looked OK, at least until I restarted. Are these some kind of magically persistent groups that will never go away?

Hi there,
Massive Crash on Adium boot. I recently updated both Adium and Skype and now Adium crashes every time it boots up. I reported the bug and was told to remove the Skype Plugin and Adium no longer crashed. Is there a fix in the works?

Groups, groups, groups. This must be tiring for you. So everyone is a permanent member of both 'Skype' and 'Buddies' I long ago gave up trying to eliminate those groups, so I collapse them in the Contact List window.

But - I've got a couple of contacts who are members of two other groups that I created. No matter how many times I 'Get Info' and remove them from one group, the next time I start Adium, they are back in both groups again. Then there are the groups I created that I no longer need and that I can't delete (they come back too.)

Where are the groups actually stored? Is there something that Skype saves which is overwriting local changes after they are made? There are two groups which I no longer want or need. I've removed them about six times and they keep coming back on a restart. At this point, I'd be happy getting rid of groups altogether if it would give me a single instance per contact in the contact list.

Found group info (many, many, many instances of it) in ~user/library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/libpurple/blist.xml Stopped Adium, moved the file out of the directory, restarted Adium. Usernames all came up in one group (Buddies) with all references to other groups gone. The newly generated blist.xml is ~7 kbytes. The old one was 3 megabytes(!)

Hit +3 by mistake this morning and got a window showing groups with contacts in them. Apparently Skype does calls them Lists. If you right-click on a contact in Skype (5.7.0.1037 for Mac) you have the option to "Add to list" which moves them from "Ungrouped Contacts" to the selected group. There's a 'Create list' option in this bubble/window, but apparently no way to delete a list.

Hi there. Unfortunately I have a strange problem with the Skype Plugin for Adium (all apps & components in the most recent version!): I do not receive every message of my Skype contacts in Adium. Like 90% work, but there are a few that do not show up in Adium... personally the big downside of it is, that I don't receive the messages from my Boss ;) I just ocassionally see them when I am switching back to Skype itself.

Any clues why this might happen, if I can fix it myself or how I can dig the real issue behind it down?

Unfortunately with the most recent version of Skype for osx, some people are missing some of their messages. Not entirely sure what's going on yet but if you could email me a debug log from Adium with some missed messages we might be able to track it down.

I'm having the same problem. I'm also seeing a problem where new messages in Skype group chats *do* cause the tab on the message window to show status properly (turn purple and show number of new messages), but do not cause the Adium dock icon to show status properly.

Hi, also have the same problem. About 50% of the messages are showing in skype and not in adium. If do not chatting and someone send a message it shows in skype. If chatting normally there is no problem. Thought it has a problem with the status "away" but not really. Switched in skype status never go to away. It is controlled by adium. But did not helped. Any ideas? The problem exists since I updated to adium 1.5

I don't see any pattern of when it works and when not. F.eg. I don't receive messages of newly added contacts, but for some new contacts it does work. Then it works for many existing contacts, but for some it doesn't.
How can I generate a Debug Log? Do I have to run Adium in Debug Mode (holding down option key when launching, as proposed by @ramonrails) to get it?

I do have the same problem, but I think this is an issue Skype itself triggers. Since I have problems with the communication between Adium and Skype I also do have problems with Skype and Growl. Skype seem to lose the connection to growl and switches all the time (or some time...) back to the fallback built-in notifying-system. (Skype-Ticketing-System: https://jira.skype.com/browse/SCM-1017 - but the suggested starting-order doesn't solve this issue)

I started Adium in Debug-Mode today and saving the protocol to my log-folder, so I come back here, when I was able to log this issue.

It mostly seems to happen when there's another IM chat going on, and perhaps also related to a long period between replies. e.g. I have a brief chat with someone who's on the phone. 5 minutes later I start another chat. First buddy gets off the phone and IMs me, but it shows up on Skype and does not hit Adium.

I have this skype contact which I've added to a set of groups. But removing it from a group does not seem to work. If I restart Adium again he's back in that original group. I only get it with that one contact, and it's a contact only from Skype. Any ideas what might be going on?

The plugin incorrectly work with group information. If you move a Skype contact from one group to another that it will last till the next Adium restart. After restart the contact goes back to "Buddies" group no metter what. Interesting that in Skype application it actually gets to a group you've just used in Adium but Skype Aidum plugin seems to completely ignore Skype grouping info when reading contacts via Skype API. Using Skype 6.0, will try to roll back to 5.6...

Yep, if you have a look through the comments here and at the issue tracker on googlecode, it's a long standing issue. I could really do with a hand to fix it as the same code works fine in other clients eg Pidgin. If you look at your blist.xml file you'll notice the buddy being added multiple times. It's as if Adium forgets that the buddy is already on the buddy list when it restarts and just adds them to the end of the buddy list again.

hmm, interesting. i'll grab the sources from svn and try to follow the issue. can you point to the particular part of code? or drop me a message via Skype, I've sent you a copy of this post via Skype too today. I'd be interested to work on the issue in my "free" time. heh.

Is it just me or anybody else experiences Skype receiving your last status update everytime you sign in to Adium? My contacts keep seeing "new" status updates from me with the same information multiple times in their feeds, I assume it's the plugin with its "launch skype if it's not running" as well as its automatic status update routine. Anybody?

The current Version of the Skype Plugin (1.1) opens multiple instances of a Group Chat occasionally, when other contacts post something to the group.
In my case, I have set a group chat as Bookmark in Adium and gave it a proper name - not sure, if this leads to the case that the Skype Plugin cannot "find" the real Group Chat?

Further, the issue with some Skype message not appearing in Adium through the Skype API is still persitent! I am using the most recent Version of Adium as well (1.7hgr5363)

Adium skype plugin seems to be buggy. first it hangs up sAdium. 2nd it will not show skype contacts. 3rd if skype is already running it will cause adium to crash.
this plugin si a good idea. i just wiosh it worked as well as it does in pidgin on windows and linux.

Apparently M$ is going to discontinue support for Skype Desktop API (as they now call it) so this plug in has its days counted. I wonder if anyone (or even M$) will be able to support Skype through a standard XMPP route one day.